Graduated lawn or garden sprinkler.



No. 682,590. Patented spLlo, mol.

y T. 1|. GREER. GRADUATED LAWN 0R GARDEN SPRINVKLEB.

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UNITEDV STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS JONSTON GREER, OF ST. HELEN-A, CALIFORNA.

GRADUATED LAWN OR GARDEN SPRINKLER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N o. 682,590, dated September 10, 1901.

I Application filed December 26,1900. Serial No. 41,126. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatLTHoMAs JoNsToN GREER, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. I-Ielena, in the county of Napa and State of California, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Lawn or Garden Sprinklers, of which the following, taken with the accompanying drawings, is a speciiication.

My invention relates to an improvement in lawn and garden sprinklers, and has for its object the economical and local distribution of the supply of water, throwing the water in the form of a spray into the corners along the outer edges of the lawn and on long narrow beds without waste. I attain this object by the apparatus illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-'- Figure l is a perspective view of my lawn and garden sprinkler. Fig. 2 is a section of same, showing the inside mechanism.

A is the slot through which the spray is ejected.

B is the device with which the spray is regulated and is composed of a cylindrical shell on one end and a screw-shank on the other. A slot is cut across the cylindrical shell B to correspond with the slot A.

In Fig. l C is athumbscrew lock-nut for holding the regulating device B iirmly in place. D isa thumb-screwing device by which the regulating device is turned to right or left and moved forward or back, thus regulating the volume and direction of the spray. E is alock-screw that holds D in place.

F in Fig. l represents the standard, which is thrust into the ground to hold the sprin kler in place.

Gr is the linien Where the sprinkler is screwed onto the hose.

The operation is as follows: After the sprinkler is united with the hose and placed in the desired position by thrusting the standard F in the ground the water is turned on and a beautiful sprayis produced, which can be thrown forward or back by setting the standard F at the required angle or to right or left by turning the regulating device to right or left, as the case may require, or the spray may be reduced, if desired, by screwing down the regulating device, thus reducing the slot A.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isa Y 1. Alawn-sprinkler comprising two cylindrical shells one within the other, each having a transverse slot in the wall thereof, and means for vimparting movement both longi tudinally and transversely to said inner shell,

. substantially as described.

2.4 A lawn-sprinkler comprising two cylindrical shells one within the other, each having a transverse slot in the wall thereof, the inner one being provided with a stem exten'ding through the end of the outer one, and means for imparting a rotary and longitudinal motion to said inner shell, whereby said slot-opening may be reduced longitudinally and laterally.

3. A lawn-sprinkler constructed of metal comprising two cylindrical shells one within the other, each having a transverse slot in the Wall thereof, a perforation in the end of the outer shell, a threaded shank on the end of the inner shell threaded through said hole, and a thumb device for operating said stem, a lock-n ut to hold said inner shell in its adj ustment and a peg which is screwed or cast in the bottom side of said lawn and garden sprinkler to be thrust into the ground to hold same in place when in operation.

4. A lawn and garden sprinkler constructed of metal, comprising two cylindrical shells the one within the other, each having a corresponding slot cut squarely across the same, Fig. 1, the outer shell havinga quarter-inch screw-hole in one end, and the inner,- or B, a threaded shank on one end which screws into said hole, said shank having a thumb-screwing device fitted on the outer end with which B, the regulating device, is worked, and having a lock-nut C, to hold regulating device B, in place, substantially as described In testimony whereof I have signed my name to the foregoing speciiication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS JONSTON GREER.

Witnesses:

F. B. MAGKINDER, E. MASON. 

